CHANEL · Pleated Tweed Maxi Coat with Tartan Accents & CC Gripoix Buttons— Paris / EDINBURGH 2013 Métiers d’Art, Karl Lagerfeld

• Boutique value: over $14,000
  — As seen on Tilda Swinton in Ad Campaign & on Billboards

— A Métiers d’Art coat that reads like northern ceremony — Edinburgh translated into Chanel’s private grammar of cloth: discipline, weather, lineage

— This is not simply outerwear; it is a long-form statement — a relic designed to move eternally through times

// Size mark 38 FR / Condition: never worn //

— House Codes · Material Authority —

• precious Lesage tweed in noble, muted tones — a restrained field with depth, density, and quiet power

• Red tartan Lesage tweed accents at collar and cuffs — a sovereign contrast, like a house banner stitched into the perimeter

• Masterpiece CC logo Jewel buttons at the cuffs — small emblems that certify the hand and the era

— Closure · Seals · Hardware as Language —

• Front fastening with leather duffle closures — utilitarian origin elevated into couture punctuation

• CC logo jewel buckles — not merely hardware, but official seals that lock the coat’s identity in place

— Silhouette · Presence —

• Maxi length with pleated architecture — a vertical column that expands into controlled movement

• The pleats function as discipline, not decoration: they give the coat a ceremonial sway, an almost liturgical rhythm